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Although alumnus David Clark is alleged to have asked for the doors of Reynolds Coliseum to be large enough to admit circus elephants, that wasn't his primary goal of lobbying university official and the state General Assembly to build the arena. Clark, instead, was prompted by spending a week in Raleigh getting rained on during a farmers' convention.
He finally got enough support to build the facility, named after William Neal Reynolds, one of the founders of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. It opened in 1949, and serves as the home to the school's ROTC programs and women's basketball team.
